Alternatives

The ASX200 fell roughly 10% in the financial year just finished, which included a terrifying 35% plunge and euphoric 30% rally in a 16-week period. This loss-making...

We have not made any tactical changes to portfolios this month after last month’s decision to trim equities. We remain modestly overweight risk, led by our positioning...

Alternative investments continue to be prominent in the portfolios of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors, including sovereign wealth funds, endowments...

The last couple of months have been extremely volatile to say the least, and this has naturally presented a lot of challenges for investors. Recent years have seen...

Earnings season is heating up in earnest, giving investors a clear glimpse into the economic impact of the global lockdowns designed to slow the spread of the...

Following the biggest market sell-off since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and volatility not seen since the 1987 crash, we turn to our investment teams for their...

2019. What a year it’s been. Headlines were dominated by trade wars, franking credits, astronomical multiples for tech stocks, failed IPO’s, the long-awaited crash...

Credit Suisse believes global growth will be a sluggish 2.5% in 2020 with a mild recovery in industrial production. A de-escalation of the trade war should lead to a...

We believe the thing investors can’t ignore for 2020 is how to get exposure to alternative asset classes. At the beginning of the year, we wrote about the reasons to...

(Ed note: first published October 2019): By now, the situation is clear. Many economies are gradually slowing down or have already entered a recession (think European...